Wednesday, August 11, 2021

IN the NEWS - Echoes of Gen. 6:11 Around the World This Week

The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence. Genesis 6:11

I. "A Chicago police officer was killed in a shooting Saturday on the city’s Southwest Side, and a second officer was critically wounded.

Three people are in custody.

Police identified the slain officer as 29-year-old Ella French. She had been on the force since 2018.

Police said officers were conducting a traffic stop in the West Englewood neighborhood just around 9 p.m.

Officers had stopped a vehicle with three occupants inside, two men and one woman. According to police, the occupants inside the vehicle opened fire towards the officers, leading to an exchange of gunfire.

The two officers who were shot were taken to the hospital, where French, who was shot in the face, died from her injuries." WANE15

II. "At least 72 people were shot, 11 of them fatally, during the weekend in Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s (D) Chicago....41 of the weekend shooting victims were shot during a ten-hour window of time that began at 7 p.m. Saturday night." Breitbart

III. "Ghulam Rasool Dar, a district president of BJP Kisan Morcha, and his wife were shot and killed by unidentified gunmen in Jammu

and Kashmir’s Anantnag on Monday....

Ghulam Rasool Dar, district president of BJP Kisan Morcha in Kulgam and a sarpanch, and his wife Jawhira Banoo were shot at and killed by unidentified gunmen at Lal Chowk in Jammu and Kashmir’s Anantnag on Monday. The two were injured and shifted to a hospital but could not be saved." IndiaToday

IV.  "San Francisco police shared a disturbing photo Wednesday of a passenger in a vehicle leaning out the window holding an AK-47. 


The photo was apparently taken July 11 from what SFPD are calling an “illegal exhibition of speed event.” The event at Barneveld and McKinnon avenues in the produce warehouse district near the Bayview neighborhood, appears to have happened during broad daylight. 

The photo, like a scene out of an action film, shows what appears to be a woman nonchalantly wielding the weapon during a chaotic moment. SFPD’s Traffic Safety Twitter account shared the photo and another of the Cadillac involved being towed away by a truck." MichaelSavage.com
 
V.  "Video obtained by the New York Post showed a woman with a gun approach another woman and allegedly shoot and kill her on a Prospect Heights street Tuesday.

The video shows a shooter wearing a purse walk up to 42-year-old Delia Johnson and shoot the unsuspecting victim in the head while she was having a conversation with some people sitting on the stoop of a building on Franklin Avenue near Prospect Place,” the outlet reported.

Once the victim fell to the ground, the alleged shooter reportedly fired off several additional shots. While neighbors ducked for cover, the suspect appeared to walk away and get into a white SUV." Breitbart

VI. "The migrant who confessed to starting a devastating fire at
Nantes Cathedral has stabbed a 60-year-old priest to death after being released
, according to reports.40-year-old migrant Emmanuel Abayisenga, from Rwanda, has reportedly confessed to stabbing Father Olivier Maire to death in Saint-Laurent-sur-Sèvre...

 “The priest is 60 years old and had welcomed the suspect into his community after he was released from prison,” an investigating source said of the killing." Breitbart